[er4hn]

Middle Earth: Shadow of War is a good example. It is a single player game with some minor and optional online elements, and used to have a pay to win store that needed internet access. It requires an online connection the first time you start it. If that server goes away - we're hoping the devs will patch it before that happens.

[nerdjon]

I was asking for examples of where a game is unplayable.

I know that there are games that only phone home or require an online connection to play online like Kingdom Hearts (which is particularly frustrating on my steam deck).

That part of this I am not disputing.

From the way this is written it sounds like this is a big problem that keeps happening for single player games, but I am struggling to find a ton of examples.

[rybosome]

The poster answered your question.

The game is unplayable without an internet connection - it refuses to start.

In spite of the fact that the internet connection is only used to provide optional content, without an authenticating server this game which is otherwise fundamentally a single player, offline game will not let you play it.

[nerdjon]

No they did not as I clearly stated the distinction in my response.

> The game is unplayable without an internet connection

That was not my question. It is still actively playable. I even gave an example of another game that I know in that situation clearly showing that I do in fact know of games that work this way and I have had my own annoyances with them.

My original question:

> How many games actually only phone home and have been rendered unplayable for that reason?

Unless I am mistaken, that game is in fact still playable.

As it is currently written this petition does nothing about that. It is not banning phoning home, just that a patch is required if/when you shut down your servers. It is talking about games that did not get that patch.

They provided an example of a game that could fit what this is proposing to stop in the future, but does not fit it at the moment.

Frankly I would support a ban on phoning home, but that is not what we are talking about.

See my other comment to the person that mentioned NFS Underground, that is an example of a game that fit the question I was asking and this petition.

[johnnyanmac]

>I know that there are games that only phone home or require an online connection to play online like Kingdom Hearts

play what online? Did they get Mirage Arena working in birth by Sleep?

Otherwise, I think the only online components is the rhythm side game.